THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - HOME FIRES BURNING (1989)
Hailing from Toronto, the band began getting favourable press around town for their blend of
'60's garage, punk, and country blues material. Following a career
highlighting gig opening for LA's The Gun Club, Gordon and second
guitarist John Deslaurier (Doughboys) left and Byron Pickles was brought
in on guitar. Immediately the songwriting began to change and the
departure of Daytona (who went onto Change Of Heart), brought about the
new rhythm section of James and Ridley. It was this line-up that
recorded a three song cassette. This line-up would follow this well
received tape with the full-blown album 'Weird Out' in 1987 on the band's own Sensible Records label. During the recording of the 1988 7" single "Wherever I Go"
they lost drummer Bob Ridley so the band turned to another drummer,
Tony Jenkinson, to record their follow-up album the less garagey and more power pop) 'Home Fires Burning'
in 1989, the main references coming to my ears would be The Barracudas.
The Ten Commandments struggled throughout the early 1990's before
calling it quits and released one more album in 1992 and then splt.
3 comments:
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Thanks Angelo. I'm revisiting your blog and grabbed a lot of stuff which I was missing or never heard before. Instead of thanks to each individual post a big thanks for all the music you shared, your time and effort to create those wonderful comps. Thanks again and take care.
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